As a conceptual category, the trace has bearings on ideas of an animating presence left behind. It is related to the relic, from the Latin reliquiae, the remains of a martyr or deceased person, and ...

KARACHI Calligraphy has been defined as “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skilful manner.” Islamic calligraphy is regarded as the noblest form of art by Muslims because ...

Mohamed Zakariya sat perched at a long table, his head bent over a small piece of paper. As admirers peered over his shoulder, he grasped his handmade pen and slowly produced the rounded, flowing ...

It is not often that two books are launched with the same title. Yet this has happened with two that, under the title The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus, have made their appearance within a ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...